<p>Photo credit: Getty Images | A customer checks out his new Microsoft Surface Pro 2 tablet after buying it at a Microsoft store in Miami. (Oct. 22, 2013)</p><p>SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp pledged late Wednesday to fight in court against any attempt by U.S. intelligence agencies to seize its foreign customers' data under American surveillance laws, one of a series of steps aimed at reassuring nervous users abroad.</p><p>The maker of the world's most popular computer operating system said it had never turned over any such data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and did not believe that authorities are entitled to the information if it is stored abroad.</p><p>"We are committing contractually to not turning it over without litigating that issue," Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith said in an interview with Reuters.</p><p><a href="http://www.newsday.com/business/technology/microsoft-doubles-down-to-fight-for-customers-privacy-1.6545213">Keep reading...</a></p>